Sweden and Denmark team up to bid for Euro 2029 in women’s soccer
PARIS — Denmark and Sweden will bid to host the 2029 Women’s European Championship, the 2 federations mentioned Thursday.
They are not with their Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland after their four-nation bid for the 2025 version misplaced out to Switzerland in a remaining spherical of voting by UEFA’s government committee final yr.
The match of 16 groups and 31 video games requires as much as eight stadiums to host.
Swedish and Danish soccer leaders introduced their bid venture in Paris after the annual assembly of UEFA the place each had supported its president Aleksander Ceferin in a doubtlessly controversial vote on extending time period limits.
Earlier on the UEFA congress, Norway was considered one of three “no” votes, with England and Iceland, in an try and separate the term-limit difficulty from a bloc vote on a wider package deal of statutes modifications.
Ceferin obtained all his proposed authorized modifications authorised, then introduced at a post-meeting news convention he won’t be a candidate in 2027 in an election that would have stretched his presidency to fifteen years.
Ceferin’s senior vp at UEFA is Karl-Erik Nilsson of Sweden. Jesper Moller of Denmark is also a UEFA government committee member and chairs its authorized committee which steered the modifications.
Norway is without doubt one of the few federations in world soccer to have a feminine president, Lise Klaveness, who’s a former national-team participant.
Norway is a two-time European champion in ladies’s soccer, and Sweden received the primary version in 1984. Denmark by no means received the title.
UEFA has but to open formal bidding for the Women’s Euro 2029.
